Lewes Labour Party – Make the Difference

Britain suffers more because our banking industry, which made some extraordinarily bad mistakes, is more important to our economy than in, say, France or Germany, and needed much more support.What is the lie the Lib-Con Government is saying at every opportunity. Its that Labour created the problems rather than their friends in Banking. But the truth is that all developed countries were hit hard by the credit crunch. This however is no reason to make you and I pay through the nose for the bad management of the Banking Sector. The reason for voting Labour is simple: everywhere you look in national and local government in our area it’s the Lib-Cons who are in charge. They need an opposition to hold them to account. This by-election is the first chance we have to create this opposition. Do we really need another Lib Dem stooge to swell the ranks of the Lib Dems who already overwhelm government locally? The Budget has been greeted warmly in some quarters by business. But it’s a Budget that puts an unfair burden on the poorest and weakest. VAT is a much greater proportion of a poor family’s weekly and yearly spend than for better-off people. The Liberals have always talked about being fair, Is an increase of to 20%, that hits the poorest hardest, fair? Child tax credits will be withdrawn from families with annual incomes of £30,000, which George Osborne was afraid to reveal in his budget speech. Is it fair to bring in cuts at that level? None of these decisions could happen without Lib Dem support. It would begin to make them think twice about supporting measures like these if they lost this By-election to Labour's candidate Jonathan Spencer

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